Emergent Thinkers™

At Emergent Thinkers, led by myself, Dr Felicity Healey-Benson, I work with clients to unlock potential wherever people learn, work, and come together. Through tailored consultancy, research, and facilitation services, I bring over 25 years of experience in leadership, enterprise, and people development, underpinned by advanced research, to help organisations turn strategy into meaningful change

Yn Emergent Thinkers, dan fy arweiniad i, Dr Felicity Healey-Benson, rwy’n gweithio gyda chleientiaid i ryddhau potensial ble bynnag y mae pobl yn dysgu, yn gweithio ac yn cydweithio. Trwy wasanaethau ymgynghori, ymchwil a hwyluso wedi’u teilwra, rwy’n cyfuno dros 25 mlynedd o brofiad mewn arweinyddiaeth, entrepreneuraeth a datblygu pobl, wedi’u seilio ar ymchwil uwch, i helpu sefydliadau droi strategaeth yn newid ystyrlon.

My clients range from schools and local authorities to SMEs, social enterprises, and voluntary organisations. Whether it’s nurturing entrepreneurial mindsets in classrooms, facilitating cultural change in public services, or supporting SMEs with people-centred growth, I offer flexible, grounded, research-informed approaches to support each journey of learning, change, and innovation.

Mae fy nghleientiaid yn cynnwys ysgolion ac awdurdodau lleol yn ogystal â BBaChau, mentrau cymdeithasol a sefydliadau gwirfoddol. P’un ai ydw i’n meithrin meddylfryd entrepreneuraidd mewn ystafelloedd dosbarth, yn hwyluso newid diwylliannol mewn gwasanaethau cyhoeddus, neu’n cefnogi BBaChau gyda thwf sy’n canolbwyntio ar bobl, rwy’n cynnig dulliau hyblyg, cadarn ac ymchwil-lywiol i gefnogi pob taith o ran dysgu, newid ac arloesi.

Services include:

• Embedding entrepreneurship and higher-order thinking (HOTS) into learning and organisational practices

• Phenomenological research, evaluation, and narrative case studies

• Values-based leadership and sustainable strategy development

• Community capacity building, co-production, and participatory methods

• Guest speaking, CPD, and interactive workshops

At Emergent Thinkers, I bring together the credibility of published research, award-winning educational innovation, and hands-on experience of facilitating change across diverse sectors.

Mae’r gwasanaethau’n cynnwys:

• Ymgorffori entrepreneuraeth a meddwl trefn uwch (HOTS) mewn dysgu ac arferion sefydliadol

• Ymchwil ffenomenolegol, gwerthuso ac astudiaethau achos naratif

• Arweinyddiaeth ar sail gwerthoedd a datblygu strategaeth gynaliadwy

• Adeiladu gallu cymunedol, cydgynhyrchu a dulliau cyfranogol

• Siarad gwadd, datblygiad proffesiynol parhaus (DPP), a gweithdai rhyngweithiol

Yn Emergent Thinkers, rwy’n cyfuno hygrededd ymchwil a gyhoeddwyd, arloesedd addysgol gwobrwyedig, a phrofiad uniongyrchol o hwyluso newid ar draws sectorau amrywiol.

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Why ‘the name Emergent Thinkers’?

In my ‘world-view’, emergent thinkers are people who see wholes rather than parts, that offer ideas that positively facilitate a world that is in a perpetual process of becoming, to support humanity’s adaptation and evolution. They draw from a range of disciplines, from science through to the arts and humanities, and embrace the unfolding process of potential that the transformative journey brings.

The world is full of systems e.g. ecosystems and varies types of social system. In philosophy, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own. These properties help living organisms adapt to their environments, increasing their chances of survival.

The term “emergence” is rooted in the Latin verb ”emergo”, to arise, to rise up,
to come up or to come forth. The term was coined by G. H. Lewes in Problems of Life and Mind (1875) who drew the distinction between emergent and resultant effects. Emergentism doesn’t rely on a scientific reductionist explanation of the mind & society. A reality interpretative theory/model (Beorlegui, 2009), it allows for a wider range of possibilities.

Spotlight 5 Interviews

My interviews entitled ‘the mind behind…’ endeavour to highlight the underlying human principles, values and experience that underpin key concepts of our time. https://emergentthinkers.com/?s=mind+behind

Lateral Thinkers

Emergent Thinkers™ pays homage to the idea that emergent thinking encompasses both convergent (using of imaginations) & divergent thinking (using of logic)(Higgins, 2013), and is related to a type of lateral thinking.

Inspirations

Complexity, Chaos Theory and Systems Thinking also inform my perspective. 

I am also passionate about sustainability and creative Entrepreneurial Development. It impregnates my thinking and writing.

The views and opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer or company

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Photos by Nikola Jovanovic, Jen Theodore & Markus Spiske 

Rights to publish Sylvia Duckwork’s image

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Emergent Thinkers™

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